Psychotherapy of adolescents

Adolescence is a period marked by turmoil due to inner and outer pressures. Adolescent behavior is a way of coping with the many internal, biological changes and faulty control mechanisms. Adolescents have to live up to many social demands, which mostly demand that they grow up, And yet they have considerable doubts about their abilities. In this turmoil of inner and outer pressures, young people, finding it difficult to trust anybody, reject from adults the help they are seeking. The task of therapy is to facilitate the healthy maturation of the adolescent, to help him develop a concept of an independent self with increasing mastery of the integrating part of the personality, which modifies, selects, controls and coordinates inner drives and modifies those in conflict with external reality.